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right found a nice 525 touring picking it up on saturday so hopefully got my engine full history and 130,000 on the clock also got all the other bits i think to do the swap apart from the clutch an 320 gear linkage so hopefully not long now!
full history and 130,000 on the clock also got all the other bits i think to do the swap apart from the clutch an 320 gear linkage so hopefully not long now!-
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Will need to swap out the PAS pump off the touring M50 if it has the self levelling rear suspension as the PAS pump will have an extra outlet on it.
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yep that's the kiddy.
With the problems that happen with the self-levelling rear suspension, many have been removed and replaced with srings & regular dampers, so the pump may have already been changed out.
Good thing with starting with an E34 donk is no time wasting hunting down sumps etc, just the engine mount arms from E36 to source
With the problems that happen with the self-levelling rear suspension, many have been removed and replaced with srings & regular dampers, so the pump may have already been changed out.
Good thing with starting with an E34 donk is no time wasting hunting down sumps etc, just the engine mount arms from E36 to source
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without question, get your loom from Dan, engine loom and leccy fan loom.
If you haven't got exhaust manifold sorted yet then I would also look at getting those from him as the wiring and the exhaust is the single biggest pain with these swaps and Dan's products allow plug & play and they are bloody good quality too, not some chinese lash ups.
If you haven't got exhaust manifold sorted yet then I would also look at getting those from him as the wiring and the exhaust is the single biggest pain with these swaps and Dan's products allow plug & play and they are bloody good quality too, not some chinese lash ups.
With regards to the linkage- you can use either m20 items (2.0 or 2.5), on my setup I used my old m20 2.0 linkage set with m42 box.
Thing I found with it is the linkage yoke sits a bit forward of the hole in the tunnel, but by using a z3 1.9 short shifter rotated 180 degrees this problem is overcome!
If you haven't got a z3 shifter I suggest you get 1 mate, they are brill and noticably better! No more than £50 from bmw
I went up to see dan yesterday to pick up some parts and had a look at his chromie, the manifolds on his car look excellent and had I known before I would have seen him for sure! I will be getting him to do me a loom for my m52 as I had an electric fan loom off him for my current m50 and it works well and is made brilliantly
I would recommend him to any1
Thing I found with it is the linkage yoke sits a bit forward of the hole in the tunnel, but by using a z3 1.9 short shifter rotated 180 degrees this problem is overcome!
If you haven't got a z3 shifter I suggest you get 1 mate, they are brill and noticably better! No more than £50 from bmw
I went up to see dan yesterday to pick up some parts and had a look at his chromie, the manifolds on his car look excellent and had I known before I would have seen him for sure! I will be getting him to do me a loom for my m52 as I had an electric fan loom off him for my current m50 and it works well and is made brilliantly
I would recommend him to any1
A 2 door e30 with 8 cylinders, what could be better 
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nopeB15NAC wrote:do i need to mod the heater pipes going into the matrix?
the heater pipe that comes from the back of the head goes to the bottom pipe/stub, front heater pipe to the top stub on the bulkhead.
have you put the pin in the linkage? take the pin out and get someone to push the servo on to the bulkhead while you do the nuts up
m52 b30 stroker 6-speed 318is Galvanizer
m42 touring
+ a yard full of scrap turds
The wiring side of this conversion is harder thinking about than actually doing, if you get me?.... Lol
As I've told others, cut 1, join it, shrink and insulate, then move onto the next 1. Take your time with it and be thorough, its not overly difficult and quite satisfying once complete to be honest mate
As I've told others, cut 1, join it, shrink and insulate, then move onto the next 1. Take your time with it and be thorough, its not overly difficult and quite satisfying once complete to be honest mate
A 2 door e30 with 8 cylinders, what could be better
just follow each wire from auto ecu plug and cut it out of the engine loom . it will make sense when you start .B15NAC wrote:so when you say cut the auto loom out is that going through all the loom and cutting away the auto side or can it stay just cut the plug off?
yea ok mat thanks for that also there was a little plug that fitted down by the ecu and it went inside the car down under the dash any idea what it is? it went into the loom maybe its part of the auto bit?!